Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Greeeeaaat

According to this story out of Greece the the Benefits Division of the state insurance provider has decided not to provide special footwear to diabetic patients anymore since amputation is cheaper. But don't worry - under Obamacare if you like your foot, you'll be able to keep it. For now.

You gotta love State Healthcare. The goal of removing heartless capitalism from healthcare leads to even more impersonal, dehumanizing penny-pinching.

It's like trusting the State to be compassionate with monopolistic power over your body is a bad idea.

4 comments:

Any time you think of people in terms of "acceptable range" and "average age of occurrence" and "average cost of care", you end up with euthanized babies and starved stroke victims and people who die from bedsores and treatable cancers. Once more, with feeling: